We draw on forty-six in-depth interviews with residents of Cerritos, California, a middle-class majority Asian suburb in Los Angeles County to explore the meaning of resurgent ethnicity and the ways in which a racialized identity informs residential preferences and choice among second-generation Asian Americans. Findings suggest that second-generation Asian Americans are choosing to reside in a place that offers cultural and class-based amenities that reflects a multiethnic sensibility. They also make residential choices based on family ties to strengthen and maintain intergenerational relations and share mutual social and economic resources. For second-generation Asian Americans, this racially dominant but ethnically diverse spatial settlement also provides a sense of belonging, signifying the continuing significance of race among middle-class, acculturated racial minority groups. As U.S. ethnic populations continue to grow and continue the trend of suburbanization and segregation, understanding such places and their implications will become increasingly important.

我们对加利福尼亚州喜瑞都的居民进行了 46 次深度访谈，该地区是洛杉矶县的一个中产阶级占多数的亚洲郊区，以探讨种族复兴的含义以及种族身份如何影响居住偏好和第二选择。 ——一代亚裔美国人。调查结果表明，第二代亚裔美国人选择居住在一个提供文化和基于阶级的便利设施的地方，这反映了多民族的敏感性。他们还根据家庭关系做出居住选择，以加强和维持代际关系并共享共同的社会和经济资源。对于第二代亚裔美国人来说，这种种族占主导地位但种族多元化的空间定居点也提供了一种归属感，标志着种族在中产阶级中的持续重要性，被文化化的少数族裔群体。随着美国种族人口的持续增长和郊区化和隔离的趋势，了解这些地方及其影响将变得越来越重要。